03-05-2025, 01:04 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-07-2025, 02:22 PM by RiverNotch.)
flock together
if we're a pair,
we're carried by a vortex
rising over an almost
skeleton, we're hooks
tearing apart a skewered
lizard, we're two ducks
with my corkscrew and
your cork, two buntings in a box
stuffed with seed and soon to be drowned
in armagnac, cormorants
blackened with petroleum, swans
black with grief:
if we're a pair, then the weather
changed last week, the light in your eyes
left last night, and an hour ago
was another life,
the past minute
all of time,
this love, this all-we've-got,
the one thing we don't need
if we're a pair,
we're carried by a vortex
rising over an almost
skeleton, we're hooks
tearing apart a skewered
lizard, we're two ducks
with my corkscrew and
your cork, two buntings in a box
stuffed with seed and soon to be drowned
in armagnac, cormorants
blackened with petroleum, swans
black with grief:
if we're a pair, then the weather
changed last week, the light in your eyes
left last night, and an hour ago
was another life,
the past minute
all of time,
this love, this all-we've-got,
the one thing we don't need